Bill to be introduced to prevent Donald Trump launching military action on North Korea without vote

Democratic senators plan to introduce a bill that would prevent U.S. President Donald Trump launching military action against North Korea unless Congress votes to approve it.

On Wednesday, Sen. Chris Murphy said he, along with senators Brian Schatz and Cory Booker, will introduce the bill that would stop Trump from launching a strike against Kim Jong Un’s regime without first getting a vote passed through Congress.

Citing unnamed U.S. government officials, NBC News reported the breakdown in talks between the two countries has caused some concern on Capitol Hill.

Joseph Yun, a top American diplomat to North Korea, has expressed frustration over the inability to communicate the urgency of the situation to the White House ahead of Trump’s trip to Asia in November.

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A second U.S. official told NBC News, the message coming from Washington could be part of the diplomatic breakdown.

“It is not so much that North Korea is shutting down, it’s that the message from the U.S. government is, ‘Surrender without a fight or surrender with a fight,’” NBC quoted the unnamed official as saying.

“It’s not surprising that negotiations are on life support right now. President Trump is deploying what is perhaps the worst negotiating strategy in the history of the American presidency,” Murphy said.

On Wednesday, a senior North Korean official told CNN the foreign minister’s words should be taken “literally.”

“The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think you should take his words literally,” Ri Yong Pil, a senior diplomat in North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, told CNN.